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Which form of social media do you check or use during the trading day?
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8%
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4%
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54%
- None. Compliance prohibits or restricts the use of social media on the desk
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33%
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Broker Hits the TCA Sweet Spot
The ranks of agency brokers have thinned in recent years, with Ticonderoga Securities and WJB Capital being two recent casualties of the trading downturn. The cry from the buyside has been that there are too many brokers pitching products that are too similar.
Cover Story: Bridging the Gap
Transaction-cost analysis is in the process of evolving into a set of powerful tools providing real-time information and decision support capabilities that are expected to give traders a leg up to find the most liquidity at the best price.
Markit Acquires Analytics Firm QSG
Financial information services company Markit announced on Wednesday it has acquired Quantitative Services Group, allowing it to use the equity research firm to create new tools for traders and investment managers.
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Cover Story: Keeping Watch
Using sophisticated monitoring and analysis techniques, bulge bracket brokers are starting to build profiles of the traders in their dark pools. They know who's naughty and who's nice, and they are using their newfound information to shore up the integrity of their trading systems.
About Face
Investment Technology Group, best known for providing the buyside with electronic trading services, has quietly embraced the sellside. With the drought in orders from money managers now stretching into its fourth year, the agency brokerage is making a big push to win flow from retail and institutional brokers.
Word For Word
Keith Ross, chief executive officer of alternative trading system PDQ Enterprises, spoke to Traders Magazine about high-frequency trading and issues related to rapid trading. Ross, a former options floor trader and strategist, was an early partner at Getco, an early adopter of high-frequency techniques.
Ax ATS Launches First Call Auction
A former block trading executive is hoping to replicate the action in the upstairs market electronically.
PDQ Brings Auctions to ATS
Chicago-based alternative trading system operator PDQ introduced an ATS that deploys an auction model that offers a pause before orders are filled.
Keeping Pace
In 2011, electronic trading and fragmentation drove the Canadian equities market into the 21st century-at least by U.S. standards. As a result, regulators will take center stage in the coming year to ensure the Great White North's markets stay accessible, secure and true to the Canadian spirit.
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